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CASCADE
- –NOUN
- 1. a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
- 2. a series of shallow or steplike
- waterfalls, either natural or artificial.
- 3. anything that resembles a waterfall, esp. in seeming to flow or fall in abundance: a cascade of roses covering the wall.
- –VERB (used without object)
- 10. to fall in or like a cascade.
- –VERB (used with object)
- 11. to cause to fall in a cascade.
- 12. Electricity . to arrange (components) in a cascade.
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BRAWNY
- –Adjective, brawn·i·er, brawn·i·est.
- muscular; strong.
- —Synonyms
- burly, robust, strapping.
- —Antonyms
- weak, slight, frail.
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CRAFTY
- –ADJECTIVE, craft·i·er, craft·i·est.
- 1. skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- 2. Obsolete . skillful; ingenious;
- dexterous.
- —SYNONYMS
- 1. wily, tricky, designing, scheming.
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EMBER
- –NOUN
- 1. a small live piece of coal, wood, etc., as in a dying fire.
- 2. embers, the smoldering remains of a fire.
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FILCH
- –VERB (used with object)
- to steal (esp. something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- — SYNONYMS
- purloin, take, swipe, lift, snaffle, pinch.
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FURTIVE
- – ADJECTIVE
- 1. taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- 2. sly; shifty: a furtive manner.
- — SYNONYMS
- 1. clandestine, covert. 2. underhand, cunning.
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GAUNT
- – ADJECTIVE, -er, -est.
- 1. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- 2. bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.
- — SYNONYMS
- 1. lean, spare, scrawny, lank, angular, rawboned. See thin.
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GLARE
- –NOUN
- 1. a very harsh, bright, dazzling light: in the glare of
- sunlight.
- 2. a fiercely or angrily piercing stare.
- 3. dazzling or showy appearance; showiness.
- –VERB (used without object)
- 4. to shine with or reflect a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
- 5. to stare with a fiercely or angrily piercing look.
- 6. Archaic . to appear conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.
- –VERB (used with object)
- 7. to express with a glare: They glared their anger at each other.
- —SYNONYMS
- flare, glitter, flash. 4. See shine. 5. Glare, glower, gloat all have connotations of emotion that accompany an intense gaze. To glare is to look piercingly or angrily: A tiger glares at its prey. To glower is to look fiercely and threateningly, as from wrath; it suggests a scowl along with a glare: to glower at a mischievous child. To gloat meant originally to look with exultation, avaricious or malignant, on something or someone: a tyrant gloating over the helplessness of his victim.
- Today, however, it may simply imply inner exultation.
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